A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan. Exact location of event, depth 122 km, 70.3152° East, 36.0673° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 122 km (76 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us2000jmdj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jmdj. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/02/19 / 2019-02-24 09:37:33 / February 24, 2019 @ 9:37 am. The temblor was picked up at 14:07:33 / 2:07 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Pārūn (c. 1 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pārūn, Farkhār (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 41 km W of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan.
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